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Saturday, December 5, 2015

12-Year-Old Odisha Girl trafficked, Escapes, and raped Again -

12-year-old girl who was allegedly trafficked from her village in Orissa on the pretext of marriage and sold off to some men who sexually assaulted her had escaped from them only to be raped again by two others. The girl was rescued by the Police on November 30 after a villager in Palwal, about 50 km from Gurgaon, spotted her lying in the field and took her to the local women’s police station. Four persons have been arrested.

the Class VI student was trafficked from her village by one Suresh on the pretext of marrying her four months ago. Initially, the girl was confined at Suresh’s house in Chauma village, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh and was sold off a month later to some men in the same city for Rs.50, 000. They reportedly sexually exploited and physically abused her.

On November 29, the girl somehow managed to escape from her captors and reached the bus stand in Palwal at around 8 pm, when two men, later identified as Goverdhan and Jitender, came in an auto-rickshaw and forcibly pushed her inside into the vehicle, took her to a field and allegedly raped her. The duo then abandoned her in the fields, as stated by the girl.

The next morning, a villager noticed the girl lying unconscious in the field and took her to local Women’s Police Station in Palwal. A case was registered under various sections of IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. She was later admitted to a shelter home.

The police have arrested the two persons who allegedly raped her and left her in the field, and are on the lookout for Suresh, who sold her and persons who ‘bought’ her. In an Another case A minor girl and her brother suspected to have been trafficked from Odisha's Sundergarh district were rescued in Karnal district of Haryana. the girl was taken from Sundergarh here by a middleman and then sold her as bride.